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Baling-Press.
Patent for a baling press made up of a vertically movable core that moves up as it gets wrapped up in the internet, supporting drums, a feed apron that presses the material to the core, a pivoted swinging frame with a compression roller, a bale support, a mechanism that lifts the frame when the bale is finished, and a rack-and-pinion mechanism that raises the compression roller that moves up to let the bale get bigger, and a mechanism that rotates the rack-and-pinion.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Smith, Hamilton E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a baling-press used for baling cotton "in which the cotton-bat is wound into a cylindrical form without the use of a metal or similar core" (lines 11-13).
Date:
August 4, 1896
Creator:
Killingsworth, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for the usefulness of baling press.
Date:
October 9, 1906
Creator:
Woodward, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Forming Gun Barrels.
Patent for an apparatus for forming gun barrels that twists a sheet of metal into a tube for the gun barrel at a slight angle, while slightly flattening the tube into an oval shape. This method is supposed to create ribs within the gun barrel.
Date:
September 10, 1917
Creator:
Cole, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Watering Plants
Patent for improvements in plant-watering apparatuses by inventor Elton F. Reid.
Date:
September 10, 1918
Creator:
Reid, Elton F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can Opener.
Patent for a new and improved can opener. This design consists "[i]n a can-opener, the combination, with a radius-bar having a handle at one end and a vertical fulcrum or pivot-pin, of an adjustable sleeve mounted on the bar and carrying two cutters, one being adapted to act as a guide and the other as a cutter" (lines 27-32).
Date:
July 28, 1885
Creator:
Misener, Richard Oliver
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad-cars. This design consists in "an ordinary draw-head provided with the usual pin-and-link coupling [that] can be readily and cheaply adapted for use as an automatic coupling. The invention consists in the combination, with a slotted draw-head and a coupling-pin swinging therein and provided with pivotal supports or trunnions, of a vertically-projecting and axially-rotatable guide loop or staple arranged on each side of the pin-slot and adapted to hold the pin from being jolted out of the draw-head, and to permit its withdrawal" (lines 9-20).
Date:
July 13, 1886
Creator:
Garrett, Jackson B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bee Feeder.
Patent for a new and improved bee feeder. This design consists in "the vertically oblong box or case having an opening in one side of its lower end, a trough or basin projecting in front of said lower opening, and lateral attaching flanges or wings" (lines 68-72).
Date:
February 8, 1887
Creator:
McWilliams, Wright H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box for Matches, &c.
Patent for a new and improved matchbox. This design "relates to boxes or cases of the class having folding securing flaps or covers . . . To this end [the] invention comprises . . . a box or case open at one extremity for insertion and removal of its contents, and provided with a slot or opening extending from its open extremity to or nearly to its opposite extremity to permit access to and removal of its contents, and having a folding flap or cover adapted to close its openings and be detachably secured so as to effectually confine and protect the contents of the box" (lines 8-27).
Date:
May 21, 1889
Creator:
Marshall, John F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buttonhole Cutter or Shears.
Patent for a buttonhole cutter or shears, which has an adjustable stop for creating buttonholes of different sizes.
Date:
March 17, 1908
Creator:
Barr, George T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bee-Gum
Patent for a bee hive which has multiple compartments which the bees can travel through and, when keeper wants to remove honey all the bees can be sent into one compartment to avoid the danger of being stung. It also has ventilation and rain protection.
Date:
November 5, 1907
Creator:
Caperton, William Elson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Cooling System
Patent for an improvement to the cooling system of the internal combustion engine of an automobile. "The object of the invention being to provide an improved cooling system of this kind which embodies means for cooling the circulatory water in the radiator by forcing air therethrough and also embodies means for directly cooling the engine by subjecting the same to the action of a blast of air."
Date:
September 3, 1918
Creator:
Goodwin, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutter-Bar Adjusting and Locking Means
Patent for "adjusting and locking the cutter bars of lawn mowers" (lines 9-11), and improve the movement of lawn mowers by adding a screw through the frame and cutter bar.
Date:
October 1, 1918
Creator:
Hollon, George F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Biblical Game Apparatus
Patent for a new and useful game apparatus. This design is to "provide a biblical game apparatus adapted to be employed in play by two or more persons" (line 8-10).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
James, Will S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Cutter
Patent for pipe cutter. This is an improvement to the pipe cutter which already exists. A portion of the pipe "is removed. . . instead of the material being displaced and wedged apart without removing as is the case with the commonly used cutter." (Johnson)
Date:
November 24, 1914
Creator:
Johnson, Willie H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Mop and Brush.
Patent for improvements in convertible mops and brushes by using a “combination of the fountain-handle, the bail/frame secured thereto and provided with a rubber strip at its lower edge, and the mop secured to the bail/frame.” (Lines 3-7, p.2) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Bagby, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Recording Apparatus for Vehicles.
Patent for an improved automatic passenger register and mileage recorder for vehicles that travel on rails. It consists of a roller that is actives by a time motor, a strip that the roller moves, a pressure roller, a pair of rollers that a record sheet is wound between, a mechanism that controls movements of the pair of rollers, electromagnets that are connected to the seats, armature levers that mark the electromagnets current, a bell crank lever that marks the moving record sheet, and a spring that supports the lever.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Baade, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Gate.
Patent for an automatic railway-gate or cattle-guard for use "at crossings, the entrances to tunnels, bridges or trestles, or at other places where it is desirable to guard the tracks" (lines 11-13). The invention is a simple and effective way for closing gates, can be operated from a distance, and is controlled by the wheels of passing trains.
Date:
August 14, 1894
Creator:
Baade, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Wagon-Brake.
Patent for a new wagon brake design which allows the break to be automatically set, with illustrations.
Date:
February 2, 1897
Creator:
Elliot, Joseph Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Vehicle - Brake.
Patent for a new and improved automatic vehicle brake.
Date:
May 10, 1898
Creator:
Elliott, Joseph Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extension Obstetrical Instrument
Patent for an extension obstetrical instrument used for surgery. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 28, 1910
Creator:
Goshorn, Leonard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock Mortiser
Patent for a lock mortiser. The object of this invention "is to provide a light, portable machine arranged to be clamped to the work piece, so that the lock mortise as well as the key hole and the bolt opening may be conveniently cut with one adjustable of the machine" (lines 11-15). Illustrations included.
Date:
September 13, 1910
Creator:
New, Luke Mosely
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back Spacing Attachment for Type Writing Machines
Patent for an attachment to provide type writing machines with back space. Illustration included.
Date:
July 19, 1904
Creator:
Parker, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Report on Proposed Southern Traction Company (Waco - Dallas - Corsicana Interurban): Statistics and Photographs
Book discussing statistics for the finances and infrastructure of the Dallas, Ellis, Hill, McLennan, and Navarro counties Texas. There are photographs of the discussed counties and cities within. The city statistics include finances, population, schools, and local industries.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Fred A. Jones Company
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History